It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn’t feel wrong, I didn’t feel right!

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

All mankind love a lover.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Intimates are predestined.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

For greed all nature is too little.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.